{"slug": "meta-llama-3-1-70b-instruct-retired-2026-06-13", "title": "Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct retired 2026-06-13", "summary": "Microsoft retired Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct on Azure AI Foundry on 2026-06-13, part of a serverless retirement wave that also affected Meta-Llama-3.1-405B and 8B-Instruct. The model, released 2024-07-23, was delisted from models.dev's Azure catalog in August 2026. Developers are advised to check their code for usage and prepare for migration.", "body_md": "MF✕ Retired\n\n# Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct\n\nMicrosoft · meta-llama-3.1-70b-instruct\n\nRetired on Azure AI Foundry (azure-hosted deployment). Same Azure serverless retirement wave as Meta-Llama-3.1-405B/8B-Instruct (doc: Retired 2026-06-13). Delisted from models.dev's azure catalog 2026-08.\n\n[Provider statement →](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs/main/articles/ai-foundry/openai/includes/retirement/models.md)Released2024-07-23\n\nRetires2026-06-132mo ago\n\nllamatext128k context33k max out\n\nalso matches:\n\n`meta-llama-3.1-70b-instruct`\n\n`microsoft/meta-llama-3.1-70b-instruct`\n\n[provider announcement →](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs/main/articles/ai-foundry/openai/includes/retirement/models.md)\n\nDoes your code call Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct?\n\n$ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash\n\nThen `mm status`\n\nin any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded.\n\n[Get alerted before it retires →](/sign-up)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-llama-3-1-70b-instruct-retired-2026-06-13", "canonical_source": "https://llmstatus.ai/m/microsoft/microsoft/meta-llama-3.1-70b-instruct", "published_at": "2026-08-19 17:18:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-21 05:13:11.809737+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Microsoft", "Azure AI Foundry", "Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct", "Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct", "Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct", "models.dev", "llmstatus.ai"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-llama-3-1-70b-instruct-retired-2026-06-13", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-llama-3-1-70b-instruct-retired-2026-06-13.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-llama-3-1-70b-instruct-retired-2026-06-13.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-llama-3-1-70b-instruct-retired-2026-06-13.jsonld"}}